Download or read book A Virtual Love written by Andrew Blackman and published by Legend Press. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A compelling and very entertaining look at the complexities of our hyperreal age, an insightful and witty exploration of the disconnect between image and reality, truth and appearance and whether love and sincere sentiment can overcome the short term thrills of social media.'James MillerFor Jeff Brennan, juggling multiple identities is a way of life.Online he has dozens of different personalities and switches easily between them. Offline, he shows different faces to different people: the caring grandson, the angry eco-protester, the bored IT consultant.So when the beautiful Marie mistakes him for a famous blogger, he thinks nothing of adding this new identity to his repertoire.But as they fall in love and start building a life together, Jeff is gradually forced into more and more desperate measures to maintain his new identity, and the boundaries between his carefully segregated personas begin to fray.In a world where truth is a matter of perspective and identities are interchangeable, Jeff finds himself trapped in his own web of lies. How far will he go to maintain his secrets? And even if he wanted to turn back, would he be able to?
Download or read book It s One of Them written by Grace Saunders and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-12-10 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grace Saunders and her brother Ben were both born with the genetic disorder spinal muscular atrophy type 2/3, SMA. From her happy childhood growing up in Hertfordshire, enduring painful operations, to becoming a mom and a wife living an independent life in Coventry. Her extraordinary story of strength, not only coping with a severe physical disability, but being victim to domestic violence. Graces story also involves drugs, murder, the police investigation that was Operation Ore and the death of her brother, aged thirty. This is a womans struggle for a normal life, independence, and remarkably, having a healthy baby girl when she was told she would never be able to have children. She coped many years, being a single mother with the help of her family and personal care assistants. She writes about her education, care, and funny stories about the world of Internet dating. She tells her story with, honesty, humor, and heartfelt emotion, Grace shares the highs and lows she has faced and has come out the other side, although a little bruised, stronger than ever, and still smiling. Graces attitude to the life she has been dealt with is, as she says, Its One of Them!
Download or read book The Happiest Days written by Peter Woods and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-16 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines pupils' experience of school from their own perspectives, showing a range of responses involving both pain and pleasure. It brings together a wide range of material to evoke pupil realities, to describe pupil cultures, and to consider the meanings of activities.
Download or read book Living Like a Girl written by Maria A. Vogel and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2021-08-13 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent decades, large-scale social changes have taken place in Europe. Ranging from neoliberal social policies to globalization and the growth of EU, these changes have significantly affected the conditions in which girls shape their lives. Living Like a Girl explores the relationship between changing social conditions and girls’ agency, with a particular focus on social services such as school programs and compulsory institutional care. The contributions in this collected volume seek to expand our understanding of contemporary European girlhood by demonstrating how social problems are managed in different cultural contexts, political and social systems.
Download or read book AQA Sociology for A level Book 1 written by David Bown and published by Hodder Education. This book was released on 2015-10-16 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exam Board: AQA Level: AS/A-level Subject: Sociology First Teaching: September 2015 First Exam: June 2016 Build students' understanding with this concept-driven approach to the 2015 AQA A-level Sociology specification, written by a team of leading subject authors and approved by AQA. - Develop the knowledge required to master Year 1 topics with clear and accessible content coverage - Build confidence in the evaluative skills needed to assess sociological theories and research - Strengthen learning and revision with a wealth of practice and extension questions and activities
Download or read book Educated in Romance written by Dorothy C. Holland and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-07-24 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is romance more important to women in college than grades are? Why do so many women enter college with strong academic backgrounds and firm career goals but leave with dramatically scaled-down ambitions? Dorothy C. Holland and Margaret A. Eisenhart expose a pervasive "culture of romance" on campus: a high-pressure peer system that propels women into a world where their attractiveness to men counts most.
Download or read book Introduction to Gender written by Jennifer Marchbank and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-30 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thoroughly updated in this second edition, Introduction to Gender offers an interdisciplinary approach to the main themes and debates in gender studies. This comprehensive and contemporary text explores the idea of gender from the perspectives of history, sociology, social policy, anthropology, psychology, politics, pedagogy and geography and considers issues such as health and illness, work, family, crime and violence, and culture and media. Throughout the text, studies on masculinity are highlighted alongside essential feminist work, producing an integrated investigation of the field. Key features: A thematic structure provides a clear exploration of each debate without losing sight of the interconnections between disciplines. World in focus boxes and international case studies offer a broad global perspective on gender studies. In-text features and student exercises, including Controversy, A critical look and Stop and think boxes, allow the reader to engage in the debates and revise the material covered. Hotlinks throughout the text make connections between chapters, allowing the reader to follow the path of particular issues and debates between topics and disciplines. New to the second edition: A new chapter explores gender through the discipline of philosophy. A new section on international relations brings this relevant topic into focus. Current discussion on the language of gender across Europe is brought in to Chapter 1. A focus on Europe and Scandinavia as well as the UK gives the text a broader scope. Examples are updated throughout to ensure the text is cutting-edge and relevant. Introduction to Gender, second edition is highly relevant to today’s students across the social sciences and is an essential introduction for students of sociology, women’s studies and men’s studies.
Download or read book Tales of the City written by Ruth Finnegan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-10-08 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Download or read book Women s Studies written by Stevi Jackson and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1993-05 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive selection of over 140 writings on women's studies, representing a diverse set of current feminist thinkers Women's Studies: Essential Readings provides a wide range of readers with an entirely comprehensive selection of ever 140 readings on women's studies, representing the entire diversity of current feminist thinking. The book is a divided into fourteen sections that reflect primary topics within women's studies, covering theory and perspectives, including: feminist social theory; psychological and psychoanalytic theory; cross-cultural perspectives and historical perspectives, as well as themes such as: education and work; marriage and motherhood; sexuality; the law; crime and deviance; politics and the state; science, medicine and reproductive technology; language and gender; feminist literary criticism; and the media tool Features: Introductions to each section provide an overview of the main issues and debates. Commentaries on each extract locate the work of individual authors within wider debates and identify the perspective from which they are writing. Each section contains a guide to further reading.
Download or read book Angels Do Come Just Call written by Kate O'Kane and published by Author House. This book was released on 2012-02-21 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Angels Do Come Just Call! is a book focusing on the concept of Angels, what Angels represent to the writer; what Angels do and the belief in the healing powers of Angels. This book has emerged out of self development tapping into the world of Angelology, a search tentatively undertaken supported by a lengthy time of contemplation. With the publication of two books of verse behind her, the author has a positive voice emanating from the sorrows and joys of life; experiences which challenge and test the fragile sense of self. Through various journeys over time she has recorded many stories freely shared in relation to the concept of Angels. as life and living demands so much of everyone, it seems fair to say that we all need something to hold onto, to believe and to encourage us as we travel the journey of life irrespective of how it unfolds. This is an invitation by the writer to draw attention to the awareness, appreciation and acknowledgement of Angels, who wish to serve!
Download or read book The Horse Girl I survived abuse and a terrorist attack This is my story of hope and redemption written by Beverli Rhodes and published by Kings Road Publishing. This book was released on 2014-07-03 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The astonishing true story of Beverli Rhodes, child victim of a sick, high-profile paedophilia ring and, years later, of the London Tube bombings, who rebuilt her life with the help of one very special animal - the horse. Horses saved Beverli Rhodes's mind, and life. As a child, her world consisted of overlapping layers, in which sexually abusive men and her beautiful saviour horses were distinguished only by levels of pain or joy. She survived to make a life for herself - only to suffer a second, devastating blow when she was caught up in the London Underground bombings of 7 July 2005, in which she was seriously injured. As a result of this traumatic experience, her fragile world became overrun with long-buried memories of her childhood, her waking hours haunted by flashbacks to agonising experiences.Her years of child sex abuse had resulted in significant memory loss. Now vile memories came flooding back as a result of a severe blow to the head in the underground train. When the British healthcare system seemed to fail her, she sought other avenues to cope with severe post-traumatic stress disorder, her recovery directly resulting from contact with horses. Supported by her partner, she is now able to live a peaceful life, and continues to maintain her strong connection with the animals that helped to save her.Moving and at times horrific, The Horse Girl is an extraordinary story of hate redeemed by love, as well as a testament to the triumph of the human spirit over the most terrible adversity.
Download or read book Confessions of A Gay Globetrotter written by Johnson O'Toole and published by Authors On Line Ltd. This book was released on 2003-04 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A candid, humerous and often moving account of one man's secret life of homosexuality in a era when to be 'gay' risked not only being a social outcast but imprisonment if caught. The author's exploits and search for sexual happiness and expression start as a child on the Indian sub-continent, move on to his family's return to an austere post-war Britain, an unhappy and perhaps unjust dismissal from a promising army career in the Far East, through to the realisation that normal family life was never going to be an attainable goal in his global search for romantic bliss. From the shores of West Africa, where he finds true love, to Australia and the flesh pots of the Middle East, this a true human interest story of our time told with passion, humour and pathos. A real insight into a way of life that had to be secreted from the world for most of the author's life.
Download or read book Dislocating Masculinity written by Andrea Cornwall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book draws upon anthropology, feminism and postmodernism to offer a penetrating and challenging study of how gender operates. The book offers a radical critique of much of the recent writing on and by men and raises important questions about emodiment, agency and the variety of masculine styles.
Download or read book Parliamentary Debates Hansard written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Guitar Gods in Beds Bedfordshire A Heavenly County written by Mike Buchanan and published by LPS Publishing. This book was released on 2014-11-17 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mike Buchanan is a Bedford-based author who interviewed eight well-known local guitarists, and wrote accounts of their colourful lives: - Finger Pickin' Good Paul Bonas - Hollerin' Bob Foley - Amazin' Max Milligan - Blindin' Dave King - Lightnin' Hands Pete Rose - Mumblin' Cliff Hanson - Thunderin' Paul Carrington (star of the author's travelogue Two Men in a Car: a businessman, a chauffeur, and their holidays in France) - Laughin' John Verity
Download or read book Trust Games written by Simon Packham and published by Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.. This book was released on 2014-06-01 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A twisted, fast-paced thriller, Packham captures teenage emotions perfectly. When a kind, charismatic new drama teacher, Mr Moore, arrives at school, Beth's life starts to look up. She's cast as the Nurse in Romeo and Juliet, and as she grows close to super-popular Hannah (Juliet), Beth finally has the female friend she's been yearning for. Meanwhile it seems that all the girls - including Beth - are in love with Mr Moore. And when a scandal breaks, Beth must make a decision that can only have dire consequences for everyone involved.
Download or read book Global Perspectives on Rural Childhood and Youth written by Ruth Panelli and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-11-21 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thematic collection of articles, with case studies and co-authored commentaries, contributed to by leading scholars, advances debates about rural childhood. Based on international research and theoretical innovation, it examines the socio-cultural contexts faced by the young.